Technical Information

Experience with Visual Studio 2010

The Rovisys Company — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:04:28 GMT

The GrandView development team switched to using Visual Studio 2010 last spring as part of our effort to provide the best product we can using the latest tools. Now that we have been actively developing in VS 2010 for a few months, we thought it was time that we shared our experiences.

Javascript Intellisense

Javascript intellisense has always been difficult due to its dynamic nature. Visual Studio 2010 is powerful enough to pseudo execute javascript code to be able to provide useful intellisense. This is made even more useful through support for jQuery intellisense as well. These improvements has allowed us provide additional client-side functionality in GrandView while shortening development time.

Multi-Monitor Support

One of my favorite new features in Visual Studio 2010 has been the addition of multi-monitor support. Editor, designer and tool windows are no longer restricted to the main window. This allows the developer to take full advantage of monitor real-estate to minimize context switching and increase productivity.

Improved Debugging and Breakpoints

Visual Studio 2010 has included many improvements to its debugging. Grouping and filtering of breakpoints can now be accomplished through breakpoint labels. This allows management of breakpoints in logical groupings without having to manage each breakpoint individually.

Pinned data tips allow the developer to track a variable's values throughout execution and afterwards. This is especially useful when a developer needs to reference that value while writing code. This saves the developer from having to rerun the debugger if they forget the exact spelling or capitalization of the value while coding.

Peter Forney

GrandView Developer

Maximizing Bandwidth Efficiency

The Rovisys Company — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Dealing with limited bandwidth or high latency scenarios can be challenging for web developers and frustrating for users. Over the years we've been able to utilize many different techniques and technologies to minimize the effects of a poor internet connection...

DHTMLX Grid Control

The Rovisys Company — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:37:47 GMT

We have been hard at work on an update for Invoicing within GrandView. As part of this effort, we needed to find an effective and versatile grid control capable of meeting all of our specific needs. We choose the grid control made by DHTMLX...

SQL Server Replication to the Rescue!

The Rovisys Company — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:48:15 GMT

Keeping data consistent across multiple offices is absolutely vital to any business, but it is made much more difficult when your offices are on opposite sides of the world...

Master Pages, Part 2

The Rovisys Company — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:45:00 GMT

Introduced in ASP.NET 2.0, Master Pages provides an object-oriented approach to web page design. However, when using master pages, there are some considerations that need to be made when applying reference paths to images.

The GrandView Blog Is BACK!

The Rovisys Company — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:50:17 GMT

After a summer hiatus, the GrandView Blog is returning at full strength this fall.

Exciting New Controls, Part 1

The Rovisys Company — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:13:57 GMT

Over the past few months, we have been upgrading parts of GrandView to use the most up-to-date third-party controls to offer...

So Long, Classic ASP!

The Rovisys Company — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:11:25 GMT

Recently, the GrandView Team came to the end of a long and storied journey--we retired the final few ASP pages from our application...

.NET Framework 3.x Features

The Rovisys Company — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:23:10 GMT

The .NET Framework 2.0 contains a vast set of features that GrandView developers take advantage of daily. While it provides everything we need to make GrandView a rich suite of project management tools...

Master Pages, Part 1

The Rovisys Company — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:21:11 GMT

Introduced in ASP.NET 2.0m Master Pages provides a template-based approach to web page design that makes more sense than static templates.